The Imperial Hotel — The Mall

Attached five- or six-bay three-storey hotel, established 1795[?]; extant 1838[?], originally two separate three-bay three-storey townhouses. Reconstructed, 1891-2, producing present composition. Sold, 1902. Renovated, 1995. For sale, 2010. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on moulded rendered cornice retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hopper and downpipe. Rendered channelled wall (ground floor) on moulded cushion course on rendered plinth with diamond pointed panelled rendered piers to ends; rendered, ruled and lined surface finish (upper floors) with diamond pointed panelled rendered piers to ends. Square-headed off-central door opening with step threshold, and "Patera"-detailed drag edged rusticated cut-limestone surround centred on fluted keystone below "Cavetto" cornice framing timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills (ground floor) or moulded rendered "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" sill courses (upper floors), and moulded rendered surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers; room (north) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers; room (south) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers; top-lit dining room (east) with timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled wainscoting supporting carved timber dado rail centred on Classical-style chimneypiece, diagonal timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled walls in timber frame, and carved timber cornice to diagonal timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled vaulted ceiling centred on lantern; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.